زردوا

Arabic

Verb

زردوا (form I)

  1. زَرَدُوا (zaradū) /za.ra.duː/: third-person masculine plural past active of زَرَدَ (zarada)
  2. زُرِدُوا (zuridū) /zu.ri.duː/: third-person masculine plural past passive of زَرَدَ (zarada)

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

Etymology

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Noun

زردوا • (zerdeva)

  1. pine marten, Martes martes (animal and its fur)

Descendants

  • Turkish: zerdeva
  • Armenian: զերտեւա (zertewa), զերտավա (zertava), զերտա (zerta), զէրտէվա (zērtēva), զէրտէվայ (zērtēvay), զերտավայ (zertavay), զերտայ (zertay)traditional orthography
  • Bulgarian: зерда́в (zerdáv), зерда́ва (zerdáva)
  • Greek: ζερδαβάς (zerdavás)
  • Kipchak:
    Armeno-Kipchak: զարտավա (zärdäva)
  • Laz: ზერდავა (zerdava)
  • Romanian: zerdava, zardava
  • Serbo-Croatian: zèrdāv / зѐрда̄в

Further reading

  • Budagov, Lazarʹ (1869) Сравнительный словарь турецко-татарских наречий [Comparative Dictionary of Turko-Tatar Dialects] (in Russian), volume I, Saint Petersburg: Academy Press, page 605a
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “zerdeva”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume V, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5458a
  • Karapetean, Petros Zēkʻi (1912) “زرداوه”, in Mec baṙaran ōsmanerēnē hayerēn [Great Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary], Constantinople: Aršak Karōean, page 400b
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “زردوا”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 643
  • Kʻiwpʻēlean, Ambrosios (1883) “զէրտէվա”, in Erekʻlezuean baṙagirkʻ tačkerēn-hayerēn-gaġġierēn [Ottoman–Armenian–French Trilingual Dictionary]‎[2], Vienna: Mekhitarist Press, page 130a
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “زرداوه”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[3], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1007